Hello Gavin,

Can you provide us your backend and FTP access so we can have a better look on your issue here? Please advise.

Hmm not really no because my live site isn't using the smart search because I haven't updated Easysocial to 1.2.3 yet. I have it on a test site still.
It seems the code in the plugin is ignoring access rights though.

	protected function getListQuery($sql = null)

	{

		$db = JFactory::getDbo();

		// Check if we can use the supplied SQL query.

		$sql = is_a($sql, 'JDatabaseQuery') ? $sql : $db->getQuery(true);

		$sql->select( 'a.*, b.title AS category, u.name AS author, eu.nickname AS created_by_alias');



		$sql->select('1 AS access');

		$sql->select('a.published AS state,a.id AS ordering');

		$sql->select('b.published AS cat_state, 1 AS cat_access');

		$sql->from('#__discuss_posts AS a');

		$sql->join('LEFT', '#__discuss_category AS b ON b.id = a.category_id');

		$sql->join('LEFT', '#__users AS u ON u.id = a.user_id');

		$sql->join('LEFT', '#__discuss_users AS eu ON eu.id = a.user_id');



		return $sql;

	}

This line:
$sql->select('1 AS access');

It's putting 1 in as the access level regardless of the indexed discussions access level. The plugin should be pulling the access level from the Easydiscuss category and putting it here instead of the 1, which is Public Users. If one of my Easydiscuss categories is for Super Users only it should be putting an 8 here.

If I manually change that 1 to an 8 and create a new post, that post when indexed is getting an 8 in the access column of the jos_finder_links table and therefore only shows that item in a search to Super Administrators (access level 8).

Any pointers/quick fixes on this would be really appreciated because I want to update my live site to ES 1.2.3. If you absolutely must have access to my site, I will need to update my live server and disable the search until you can take a look, but I would prefer if you could just post a fix here.

Thanks Nik

Hi Gavin,

I am sorry for the delay of this reply.

It seems like currently the EasyDiscuss finder plugin did not respect the permission from category. I will take a look again into this issue again and will get back to you once we have the issue fixed.
I am sorry for any inconvenient that may have caused to you.

Thanks very much Sam. I'll look forward to it.

Thanks for understanding Gavin, we'll keep you updated